Sentences with phrase «of coal export facilities»

Rainforest Action Network along with Peaceful Uprising, Utah Moms for Clean Air and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers organized a 60 person rally in from of the office of coal exporter Ambre Energy asking them to stop their development of coal export facilities in Longview, Washington.

Not exact matches

Last month, 53 members of Congress — including Washington State's Republican Rep. Doc Hastings — sent a letter to the U.S. Army and the Department of the Interior, which grants leases to mine coal, asking the agencies to «expedite their consideration of permits for coal export facilities.»

Companies are angling to build two export facilities in Washington State from which 100 million tons of coal would be shipped to China, Japan and South Korea a year — about the same as what the United States exports now from East Coast and Gulf ports.

Residents are concerned that with the increase of coal export activity, the facility's permit is not up to standards to protect the community.

Millennium Bulk Terminals (MBT), a subsidiary of Australia - based Ambre Energy, has proposed to modify the terminal to include a new coal export facility and equipment for cement products imports and distribution.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

Lighthouse Resources, the owner of a massive coal strip mine in Montana, wants to open North America's largest coal export facility in Washington State.

Here, Dawn Regier of Portland raised her concerns about the proposed coal export facility.

Expansions at the Fraser Surrey Docks coal export facility in Vancouver, Canada would increase the number of coal trains moving through Washington.

Other Powder River Basin producers, including top US coal miner Peabody Energy, have talked about the potential for a new export facility on the West Coast, with Oregon and Washington being mentioned as the top locations of choice.

In a nutshell, Power demonstrates that the planned coal export facilities in the Northwest would add to the supply of coal to China thereby pushing down the cost of burning it.

The report goes on to note that «a coal export facility with the capacity to ship 20 - 30 million tons per year of Peabody Powder River Basin coal would result in the export of 35 - 53 million tons of CO2 per year.

Norfolk has consistently remained the largest export facility, servicing approximately one - third to one - half of U.S. coal exports since 2000.

Again, it's not just that burning tar sands oil produces a lot of emissions; it's that long - term capital investments like Keystone (and coal plants, and coal export facilities) «lock in» those dangerous emissions for decades and make catastrophic climate disruption inevitable.

It's almost inconceivable that there would be a plan afoot to change this part of the world to a coal export facility.

The project would be the first LNG export facility ever built so close to so many homes, the first built in close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing coal - fired power plants combined.

U.S. coal exports are largely concentrated in a few facilities, with the leading seven ports accounting for 94 % of U.S. exports.

This means shipping coal on a huge number of trains through communities in the Pacific Northwest every day, and then processing it at massive coal export facilities.

Denis Horgan, Vice President of Westshore Terminal at Roberts Bank in Delta — the largest coal export facility on the Pacific coast — said the $ 230 million project is more about «staying efficient,» and carefully used the words «stockpile expansion.»

Trainloads of Powder River coal travel to the coal export facility in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, daily.